This position will work out of our corporate office in Gays Mills, WI.
Position Summary: The Buyer II assists in purchasing materials, supplies, and services. This is done by fulfilling requests for purchases, including preparing purchase orders and handling inquiries about orders. Follows through with purchases from order placement to fulfillment and ensures order arrives undamaged and on time. Ensures that daily inventory counts are accurate and that product is available for production. Reviews daily reports from planning, receiving and purchasing to ensure correct inventory to meet production goals. Performs buying duties.
Job Responsibilities
- Strategic Management
- Evaluate and utilize suppliers for raw materials or services to meet BAPI’s requirements for low cost while maintaining a high level of quality
- Establish and maintain strong supplier relations with preferred suppliers and ensuring the most economical cost remains consistent with quality standards and specifications.
- Recommend cost saving proposals
- Ensures updated supplier delivery schedule in FileMaker and identify, coordinate, and implement alternative action plans to appropriate groups if raw materials or services cannot be available for a production run.
- Obtain quotes and find specific requirements for the organizational needs
- Continuous product replenishment of assigned categories which includes contacting suppliers to schedule or (de)expedite deliveries, resolve shortages, missed or late deliveries, and any other issues that arise with the supplier
- Work on projects/matters of intermediate level complexity in a support role.
- Purchasing Maintenance
- Manages supplier price, delivery, lead-time, and quality expectations, escalates when appropriate
- Manage material rejects, scrap & vendor returns
- Assist with physical inventory auditing and preparation
- Monitor and resolve invoice vs. purchase order discrepancies
- Monitor inventory levels, resolve discrepancies
- Reporting
- Monthly updates on supplier key performance indicator metrics
- Quarterly updates on supplier scorecards
- Supplier corrective action and root cause countermeasures
- Daily exception report
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position
Skills, Attributes and Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree Required in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration/Management or Accounting OR a minimum 4 years of equivalent training/experience in the field or in a related area can be substituted
- 3-5 years of experience in Purchasing/Supply Chain or similar position required OR any combination of training and similar experience that provides the required knowledge, skills, and ability may qualify. College experience will qualify.
- Comprehensive understanding of Outlook, MS Excel, MS Word and industry standard purchase order software platforms
- Strong negotiating skills and reasoning ability
- Strong ability to work well with and support a collaborative team environment
- Exceptional attention to detail and multi-tasking
- Strong analytical thought process, math proficiency and reasoning
- Ability to solve practical problems and realize cost savings when appropriate
- Ability to follow instructions furnished in written or oral formats
- Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal, required
- Demonstrated ability to communicate verbally or written in any form/media in a business professional man
Decision Making: Ability to order inventory product up to $5,000 as per department approved procedures.
Working Conditions:
Physical surroundings (e.g. office equipment):
Exposure to temperature changes or mild odors when assisting with inventory
Hazardous conditions requiring safety adherence or PPE equipment):
Wear safety glasses and closed toe shoes in specific locations in the facility
Physical efforts (e.g. repetitive lifting, bending stooping, or other physical effort required):
Sitting for extended periods of time
Ability to access and use computer
Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to operate computer keyboard, mouse, telephone and normal office equipment
Domestic/International Travel: None
Extensive hours: Once a month expected to stay on inventory days until physical inventory is completed.